We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."If you have a solution that is creating a script and you need to deploy many implementations, you can create a script in the device and it will be the same for all. After that, you just have to do the fine tuning."
"The dashboard is the most important thing. It provides good visibility and makes management easy. Firepower also provides us with good application visibility and control."
"When it comes to the integration among Cisco tools, we find it easy. It's a very practical integration with other components as well."
"The fact that we can use Firepower Management Center gives us visibility. It allows us to see and manage the traffic that is going through the network."
"Very good as a stateful inspection firewall."
"I have access to the web version of Cisco Talos to see the reputation of IP addresses. I find this very helpful. It provides important information for my company to obtain the reputation of IP addresses. The information in Talos is quite complete."
"The Inline Mode configuration works really well, and ASA works very impressively."
"A good intrusion prevention system and filtering."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"It performs very well."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"Using WildFire has reduced the number of viruses and the amount of malware that comes into our system, which means that I don't have to rely on the end-users to identify it."
"Remote access is excellent."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"One of my main concerns, an area that could use improvement is in adjusting the need to buy a license to enable features."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"I'm not a big fan of the FDM (Firepower Device Manager) that comes with Firepower. I found out that you need to use the Firepower Management Center, the FMC, to manage the firewalls a lot better. You can get a lot more granular with the configuration in the FMC, versus the FDM that comes out-of-the-box with it. FDM is like Firepower for dummies."
"We wanted to integrate Firepower with our solution, but it didn't have the capability to accommodate our bandwidth since they only had two 10 gig interfaces on the box. We run way more than that through our network because we are a service provider, providing Internet to our customers."
"The solution needs to have better logging features."
"I would like the ability to pick and choose different features of it to run in a packaged infrastructure or modules, therefore I would like to have more customizability over it."
"One thing that Cisco could improve is the GUI. The graphic user interface should be more user-friendly."
"The ASA needs to incorporate the different modules you have to integrate to achieve UTM functions, especially for small businesses."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The initial setup is complex."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"The initial setup was complex."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The configuration should be made a little bit easier. I understand why it is as it is, but there should be a way to make it easier from the user side."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."